QOTD: "An investment of knowledge always pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin
Reading: the Sunday Washington Post
Listening to: nothing
Decluttering accomplishments: threw out several old magazines
I'd forgotten about spring fever. In California, the weather is too constant, so there isn't that sudden transition to mark by basking in reasonable warmth. But in my undergrad days, there were always a couple of weeks when problem sets went ignored in favor of just lying out on the grass, when the last thing on earth I wanted to do was to study or to work or to do anything except lazily rejoice in springtime.
Spring came to Northern Virginia this week and I feel the same way all these years later. On Wednesday, I left my meeting in another part of Arlington and, as my colleague started to turn to the metro station, I said, "it's such a nice day, I think I'll just walk." Once I persuaded him it was only about a mile and a half to our office, he walked too. The passing scene along Clarendon and Wilson Boulevards may be too urban, but it still felt good to move in the sunshine.
It did get colder again, with Friday being noticeably chilly, but the weekend has been gorgeous. So all the household odds and ends I'd planned to do have gone ignored, in favor of sauntering and strolling and thinking about how it's too nice out to actually do anything.
Alas, the things it's too nice to do include writing anything much here. It's supposed to be rainy much of this week, so I might manage on Wednesday or so.
Copyright 2003 Miriam H. Nadel